From CNET: Apple wants to be part of China's big efforts to promote renewable energy.

The iPhone maker, together with 10 of its suppliers, will jointly put almost $300 million into the China Clean Energy Fund over the next four years, it said in a statement Thursday. By 2020, Apple hopes to create...

From CNET: The Apple MacBook Pro is getting a midsummer update -- but it's a specs-focused, under-the-hood component refresh that leaves the familiar 2016-era design unchanged.

The 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models with Apple's TouchBar secondary display are getting updated Intel CPUs, new...

From The Verge: Microsoft is preparing to add Dolby Vision support to its Xbox One S and Xbox One X consoles. The addition will mean Microsoft’s consoles join the Apple TV 4K and Google’s Chromecast Ultra as the only streaming devices that currently support both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos...

From PC Mag: Have a bunch of passwords saved in Firefox on your desktop? Mozilla is about to make your life a whole lot easier.

The browser maker just introduced a free password manager app called Firefox Lockbox, which syncs all the usernames and passwords you saved in Firefox on your desktop to...

From The Verge: An allegedly official render of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has been posted over at Android Headlines, and... well, there’s not a lot to see. The render only shows the front of the device, and if it’s accurate, the Note 9 will look almost identical to its predecessor from this angle...

From CNET: Australia will reportedly no longer allow Huawei to supply security equipment for country's upcoming 5G roll-out.

The ban -- first reported by Reuters and attributed to to two sources -- comes after Australian intelligence agencies warned that the Chinese telecom may be forced to give...

From ComputerWorld: The processing power of high-end gaming cards made them ideal for cryptocurrency mining rigs and they were in hot demand when Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital token prices leaped to unprecedented heights in late 2017 and early 2018.

That trend now appears to be reversing; add...

From CNET: LG Display got Chinese government approval to build an OLED display factory there, the company said Tuesday.

The plant in Guangzhou will mainly produce OLED (organic light emitting diode) panels for TVs. The factory will initially aim to produce 60,000 panels each month and then...

From The Verge: Waze’s crowdsourced traffic data that helps you steer clear of accidents and avoid busy streets may soon be used to help change the infrastructure issues that create these problems in the first place. Today, Waze announced the Connected Citizens Program, which will allow American...

From PC Mag: Sometimes, you'd rather not have the videos watched on YouTube remembered, but the only way to really stop that happening is to sign out of your account. However, anyone watching YouTube on an Android device now has a much simpler alternative: Incognito mode!

As 9to5Google reports...